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Its not its what your country can do for you what you could do for your country.
Its not its what your country can do for you what you could do for your country.
Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke
Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke
Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful read more
Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful -- just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.
I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures read more
I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, read more
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter read more
There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment
To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.